Fed up with what goes on in Pittston Township?
Go to the Pittston Township Supervisors Meeting and SPEAK UP!

Next Meeting:
Normally the Third Monday of January
Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday is January 21
Meeting for January 2019 scheduled for:
January 22, 2019 at 7pm
Call 570-654-0161 to verify date and time

You can feel free to tell us your story. We will NOT publish it without your permission!
But, there is strength in numbers. Share, confidentially, with us.
Email us: Pittstontownship@yahoo.comKnow something about corruption? Call the FBI 570-344-2404

PITTSTON TOWNSHIP POLICE CHIEF ROBERT "Bobby" AVVISATO FIRED
SPECIAL 3 MINUTE, MID-AFTER NOON MEETING
Can you believe this?
Pittston Township Board of Supervisors had a MID AFTERNOON meeting and fired Robert Avvisato as Chief of Police. No real explanation was given. Citizens are outraged!
We are certainly not the least bit surprised.
This latest stunt is representative of how things are done in Pittston Township.

"Supervisors on Friday fired the township police chief during a brief special meeting without offering any explanation or even commenting on who will lead the department.

The meeting lasted only about three minutes, most of which was occupied by concerned residents demanding answers, and ended with supervisors departing with a declaration that a lawyer had advised them against commenting on their 2-1 vote to oust Chief Robert Avvisato, who has been on the job only about a year and a half.

"This is clearly, in my opinion, a witch hunt to get rid of me," Avvisato said afterward."
READ the Citizens' Voice STORYKnow something that will help?
CONTACT Robert Avvisato's Lawyer:
Atty. Scott E. Schermerhorn, 222 Wyoming Ave., Scranton, PA 18503
TELEPHONE: 570-348-1020
STEPHEN RINALDI ORDERS RESIDENT THROWN OUT OF MEETING AFTER QUESTIONED ABOUT HIS ROLE IN POLICE DEPARTMENT
On Monday night, September 15, 2014, a Pittston Township resident named Curt Muffley questioned former Chief of Police Stephen Rinaldi, now supervisor, about his role in the now-chiefless police department. Stephen Rinaldi appeared very angry that he was being questioned about his role in the police department, and tried to have the Pittston Township taxpayer ejected by an off-duty police office standing just outside the meeting room. The objections of other residents attending the meeting seemed to keep the resident from being ejected from the meeting.

Update: if you read the account of this in a local newspaper, you would read a version different from what this writer witnessed. The article suggested that Curt Muffley was informed by Supervisor Stephen Rinaldi that he would be ejected from the meeting if he didn't calm down. I was there, and the way both myself and another witness remember it was Stephen Rinaldi was outraged at being questioned, and he actually ORDERED Muffley thrown out. It didn't happen, though, because the crowd mumbled disapproval, and Muffley was allowed to stay.
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PITTSTON RESIDENT QUESTIONS STEPHEN RINALDI REGARDING FAVORITISM
"Is it pick on Stevie night?" questions Stephen Rinaldi after 2nd resident complains about his tactics.
A Pittston Township resident stood up at the September 15, 2014 meeting and questioned why she and her family have consistently been threatened with condemnation of their well-maintained home whenever they complained about neglect of the other side of the two family structure, which is owned by another family. (The woman and her husband own their half). The owner of the other half, the woman explained, moved out in January 2009 and essentially abandoned the run-down home for the past six years. That absentee owner is a close family friend of Stephen Rinaldi.

Pittston Township needs an ordinance to protect owners of a half of a double home. If one half of a home with a common wall is well-maintained and the other side is neglected for decades - then abandoned - then is this fair to the responsible owners of the well-maintained and occupied half? Not at all.
Have you been a victim in or of Pittston Township?
Tell us YOUR story. PittstonTownship@yahoo.com
There is strength in numbers.
Thank you.
Meetings normally held THIRD MONDAY of month at 7pm.
This can change. Call Pittston Township to verify time. (Menu at left).
Please, if you know of a change in contact numbers, etc, please CONTACT US.
Our email is PITTSTONTOWNSHIP@Yahoo.com. Isn't that easy?
We actually had someone call a RADIO STATION instead of contacting us about a change!

PITTSTON TOWNSHIP INFORMATIONWe are NOT the official Pittston Township Website

Supervisors Meetings: NORMALLY the 3rd Monday of EACH MONTH* at 7PM.

Meetings are normally held the third Monday of each month at 7PM.
*If the third Monday falls on a holiday week-end (Martin Luther King,Jr. day, etc.), the meeting is then scheduled for the Tuesday after at 6:30 PM.
THIS IS, HOWEVER, SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
CALL THE TOWNSHIP 654-0161.
The meetings are held at the Pittston Township Municipal Building, which is located on Broad Street, Pittston Township (directly behind the Pittson By-Pass).

PLEASE NOTE: Meetings can be rescheduled.
CALL (570-602-2071) Pittston Township to get the correct date and time of the meeting.